Karl Edward Wagner Award

A Special Award given by the BFS at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre." Originally, it was called the British Fantasy Awards Special Award. In 1997, it was named in honor of Karl Edward Wagner.

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Year	Winner
1973	Robert E. Howard, for Marches of Valhalla
1974-1980	no award
1981	Stephen King
1982	no award
1983	Karl Edward Wagner
1984	Donald Wollheim & Elsie Wollheim
1985	Manly Wade Wellman
1986	Leslie Flood
1987	Charles L. Grant
1988	no award
1989	R. Chetwynd-Hayes
1990	Peter Coleborn
1991	Dorothy Lumley
1992	Andrew Porter
1993	Michael Moorcock
1994	David A. Sutton
1995	John Jarrold, for editing Legend Books
1996	Mike O'Driscoll & Stephen Lockley, for running the Welcome to My Nightmare Convention
1997	Jo Fletcher
1998	D. F. Lewis
1999	Diana Wynne Jones
2000	Anne McCaffrey
2001	Peter Haining
2002	no award
2003	Alan Garner
2004	Peter Jackson, for The Lord of the Rings movie
2005	Nigel Kneale
2006	Stephen Jones
2007	Ellen Datlow
2008	Ray Harryhausen
2009	Hayao Miyazaki
2010	Robert Holdstock
2011	Terry Pratchett
2012	Nicky & Peter Crowther
2013	Iain M. Banks
2014	Farah Mendlesohn
2015	Juliet E. McKenna
2016	the FantasyCon Redcloaks, Past and Present
2017	Jan Edwards
2018	N. K. Jemisin
2019	Ian Whates
2020	Craig Lockley
2021	Alasdair Stuart
2022	Maureen K. Speller
2023	Ann Landmann

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Award

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